Today’s Headlines
Transportation Advocates Aren’t Happy With Proposed Senate Funding Levels … (The Hill) … But Smart Growth Group Praises TOD Provision (Smart Growth America) Obama at NY’s Tappan Zee Bridge Today to Press Congress on Infrastructure (AP) Biden Makes the Same Pitch in St. Louis, Cleveland (StarTrib, AP) A Bankrupt Highway Trust Fund Could Cost 700,000 Jobs (Fiscal … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:00 AM EDT on May 14, 2014
- Transportation Advocates Aren’t Happy With Proposed Senate Funding Levels … (The Hill)
- … But Smart Growth Group Praises TOD Provision (Smart Growth America)
- Obama at NY’s Tappan Zee Bridge Today to Press Congress on Infrastructure (AP)
- Biden Makes the Same Pitch in St. Louis, Cleveland (StarTrib, AP)
- A Bankrupt Highway Trust Fund Could Cost 700,000 Jobs (Fiscal Times)
- Does New Transit Have to Come With Higher Rents? (Atlantic Cities)
- Funds Sought for Studying New Orleans-Orlando Rail (AP)
- Popular Rail Trail Spurs Development in Dallas (NYT)
- Price Balloons for Streetcar in Arlington, VA (WaPo)
- What’s Gone Wrong With Portland’s Bike Culture? (Bike Portland)
- City of Atlanta Joins With MARTA to Run Streetcar (Atlanta Biz Journal)
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